Martin Brodeur has yet to need a game off, but with games on consecutive nights starting tomorrow, coach Jacques Lemaire didn’t rule out the possibility that new backup Yann Danis could get his first start as a Devil in one of them.

“He might,” Lemaire said after the team practiced in Newark yesterday, fresh off a three-game road winning streak.

The Devils host Atlanta tomorrow and Carolina on Saturday. Lemaire and his staff are trying to figure out when Danis, who spent last year with the Islanders, some time.

“We can’t look for an easier game because there’s none,” Lemaire said. “I don’t know exactly when he’ll step in, but he will soon. I just want to see how good we’re playing. If we play [well], we’ll give him a chance.”

It’s one that Danis is looking forward to.

“I want to get one under my belt,” said Danis, who grew up in Canada watching Brodeur. Now, he’s trying to learn as much as he can from Brodeur after appearing in 31 games with the Isles last year, as he and Joey MacDonald filled in for the injured Rick DiPietro.

“I’ve just been watching Marty and some of the things he does, especially playing the puck,” Danis said. “I think it’s one of my weaknesses and to see what he’s able to do, he’s like a third defenseman. And seeing him every day and understanding that everything he does, there’s always a thought behind it. Whatever he does is calculated and he works hard at it in practice.”

He clearly is in a different environment than he was with the Isles, the worst team in the league last year.

“There’s higher expectation here, and guys know that,” Danis said. “Last year, I was on a young team that was rebuilding and the goal was to improve every day. Here, it’s to win.”

Danis has proven himself in the preseason, as well as last year, when he shut out the Devils, 4-0, on Feb. 21, making 40 saves.